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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexandre Cirici |
| OCLC Number: | 312544 |
| Notes: | Translation of Los tesoros de España desde Carlos Quinto hasta Goya. |
| Description: | xxiv, 236 p. : mounted illus. (part col.), map ; 34 cm. |
| Contents: | pt.1. The splendor of the conquerors: The Spain of Charles V -- Castilian plateresque -- Granada; the universal spirit -- The European spirit -- Decorative art -- The rediscovery of the human body -- Roman fantasies -- The rigors of the counter reformation -- A monument in gray -- Mannerism -- The great retables -- pt.2. The golden century: "Life is a dream" -- The flowering of baroque -- Wind and fire -- The cult of the dead -- The realism of the seaports -- The discovery of the object -- The human touch -- Space, air and light -- pt.3. The silver age: Enlightened despotism -- Movement crystallized -- Illusory riches -- Echoes of adventure -- The dance of the courtiers -- The exploration of nature -- Among the people -- The return to antiquity -- The era of violence. |
| Series Title: | Treasures of the world |
| Other Titles: | Tesoros de España desde Carlos Quinto hasta Goya. |
| Responsibility: | introduction by F.J. Sánchez Cantón ; text by Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer ; [translated from the Spanish by Robin Kemball, Gladys Ronkin, and Catherine Moran]. |
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Gift of Roy C. Porteous.
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